What’s on Saturday

8 P.M. (HBO) MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE’S MOST WANTED (2012) Those escapees from the Central Park Zoo — Alex the lion (Ben Stiller), Marty the zebra (Chris Rock), Gloria the gorilla (Jada Pinkett Smith) and Melman the giraffe (David Schwimmer) — depart Africa to join a European circus, the better to evade a French animal-control officer (Frances McDormand) literally after Alex’s head, in this franchise’s latest installment. They also try to play nice with their new friends Vitaly (Bryan Cranston), a tiger; Gia (Jessica Chastain), a jaguar; and Stefano (Martin Short), a sea lion. “Life lessons in the script (partly by Noah Baumbach, Mr. Stiller’s ‘Greenberg’ director) are desultory, but a late twist is surprising,” Andy Webster wrote in The New York Times about this film directed by Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath and Conrad Vernon, and styled after Miroslav Sasek’s illustrations. “Where ‘Madagascar 3’ soars is in its visuals: A Monte Carlo chase is vertiginously madcap; a Cirque du Soleil-style spectacle dazzles with rich pastels; the 3-D effects have wit and invention,” Mr. Webster added. “Kids will be stimulated. And, parents, you’ll enjoy the sights.”

7 P.M. (E!) PRIDE & PREJUDICE (2005) Keira Knightley, in an Oscar-nominated role, portrays Elizabeth Bennet in this adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel about five sisters whose mother (Brenda Blethyn) is desperate to marry them off to men of means. Joe Wright directed the film, which features Rosamund Pike (far right, with Ms. Knightley) as Jane, Elizabeth’s older sister and the belle of the ball. “But because Ms. Knightley is, in a word, a knockout, the balance has shifted,” Stephen Holden wrote in The Times. “Her radiance so suffuses the film that it’s foolish to imagine Elizabeth would be anyone’s second choice.”

8 P.M. (Bravo) THE FAMILY MAN (2000) Jack Campbell (Nicolas Cage), a Wall Street playboy, wakes up on Christmas Day to discover that he’s stuck in the life he might have lived had he married the college sweetheart (Téa Leoni) he left behind. Don Cheadle plays the robber who seems to be at the root of the misplaced existence. “ ‘The Family Man’ asks us to feel sorry for Mr. Cage’s character, both when he is rich and when he is part of the middle class, probably because it wants to evoke the same kind of suffering as ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ and the film version of ‘A Christmas Carol,’ ” Elvis Mitchell wrote in The Times. But “in those stories, there was righteous anger. ‘The Family Man’ wants us to feel Jack’s pain, but it’s a panhandler in a $2,500 suit.”

8 P.M. (BBC America) DOCTOR WHO In an episode written by Neil Gaiman, the Doctor (Matt Smith) and Clara (Jenna-Louise Coleman) arrive at Hedgewick’s World of Wonders, once the greatest theme park in the galaxy, but now the dilapidated home to a ragged menagerie — and one of the Doctor’s oldest enemies (Warwick Davis).

9 P.M. (Hallmark) BEVERLY LEWIS’ THE CONFESSION (2013) Katie Lapp (Katie Leclerc), an innocent Amish woman, ventures out of her community in Lancaster, Pa., to search for her birth mother, the wealthy Laura Mayfield-Bennett (Sherry Stringfield). But Laura is dying of cancer, and when her husband (Adrian Paul), a gambling addict, discovers that he’ll inherit almost nothing from her estate, he hires an out-of-work actress (Julia Whelan) to impersonate Katie in the hope that Laura will leave her entire estate to her only child.

9 P.M. (CUNY) UNIFORM (2003) A young man who works in a tailor shop puts on a police officer’s uniform that he was unable to deliver, and suddenly his life changes in this movie written and directed by Diao Yinan. It’s the first entry in “A New Decade of Film From China,” a four-part series. Afterward Jerry Carlson, the host of “City Cinematheque,” discusses the work with Weihong Bao, an assistant professor of Chinese film and media culture at Columbia.

10 P.M. (FX) FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL (2008) In this breakup comedy produced by Judd Apatow and directed by Nicholas Stoller, a doughy, underachieving musician (Jason Segel, left) encounters his ex-girlfriend (Kristen Bell), the star of a television cop series, with her new rock ’n’ roll lover (Russell Brand) at a resort in Hawaii. Good thing the pretty receptionist (Mila Kunis) has a soft spot for losers. Writing in The Times, A. O. Scott said that the film’s “overall jollity is streaked with some raw emotions, including jealousy, heartache and humiliation.” KATHRYN SHATTUCK